The Conservatives have named a new critic to take on the Liberals' handling of the economy — but not a new strategy, as party stalwart Michael Chong maintained Tuesday the country is in a recession despite data suggesting the economy started growing again. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has named Chong, an Ontario MP, as the new finance critic in a...
The Canadian economy was back in growth mode to start the second quarter, rebounding from a mild contraction in the first three months of 2026. Statistics Canada said Tuesday that real gross domestic product rose 0.5 per cent in April, the fastest growth rate for the economy since July 2025. The result topped StatCan's early estimate for 0.4 per cent...
As Prime Minister Mark Carney attempts to make Canada an energy superpower, he is conceding for the first time that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions will be “higher in the next few years” than projected under the previous government’s plan. The admission came in his second “Forward Guidance” video address to Canadians released on Tuesday. “In my judgement, that plan...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he doesn’t expect any resolution Wednesday to the ongoing talks about whether to renew or review the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. “We’re expecting a constructive exchange,” Carney told reporters in Kuujjuaq, Que. on Tuesday ahead of an Inuit–Crown Partnership Committee meeting. “I wouldn’t expect any drama tomorrow. I’m not looking for my pen.”...
A key date for a critical trade agreement will come and go this week as the United States under President Donald Trump continues to push for concessions from its closest neighbours. The United States is set to officially inform Canada and Mexico on Wednesday its intentions for the continental trade agreement, known in Canada as CUSMA -- and all signs...
Canada’s federal political landscape remains steady, with little movement in party support. The Liberals continue to lead comfortably at 43.8%, ahead of the Conservatives at 30.4%. The NDP sits at 12.0%, while the Bloc (6.5%) and Greens (5.2%) remain smaller players.
A new Canada Day survey from Liaison Strategies finds Canadians remain proud of their country, but that pride is mixed with anxiety about the country's direction. Thinking about Canada Day this year, 51% of Canadians say they are very proud to be Canadian, while 29% say they are somewhat proud. Nine per cent say they are not very proud, 6%...
Is Canada ready to surf a socialist wave? After the shock victories of three hard-left candidates in last week’s U.S. Democratic primaries, voters and their leaders may wonder whether our country could elect the likes of “democratic socialists” Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander and Claire Valdez. Chevalier is particularly radical: in a since-deleted X post she wrote “I forgot to...
It should come as no surprise that Canada's prime minister would go to bat for national unity, but it remains unclear exactly how Mark Carney's determination will manifest itself in Alberta. At his end-of-sitting news conference last week, Carney vowed to make the case for Canada and use the summer months to convince Albertans that things are improving, and that...
Poilievre's office on Tuesday announced his 'affordability team,' which saw key members of his caucus switch titles
Foreign investors including pension funds, insurance companies and hedge funds are buying Canada’s federal bonds in record amounts, easing the cost of funding Prime Minister Mark Carney’s expensive nation-building projects but potentially introducing more volatility to Canada’s debt market.
In the 2015 British election, the Labour party campaign team underlined their commitment to keeping their promises by literally carving them in stone. Article content When the leader, the hapless Ed Miliband, showed up to unveil the eight-foot-tall limestone slab, he turned to his spin doctor and said: “Bob, doesn’t it look a bit like a gravestone?”
Canada is buying a sophisticated radar system from our friends in Australia … at a speed not seen in generations, and all that jazz. First, the news: Canada will spend $2.6-billion to procure an “over-the-horizon” radar system that will (hopefully!) allow anything approaching North America from the North—aircraft, missile, or drone—to be tracked at long ranges. The Australian system is...
As a headline writer, you’re essentially in the business of getting people’s attention. The team at the Globe and Mail certainly hit that mark with a recent column titled “SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him.” This spurred all sorts of noisy pushback from Canada’s tech elite, with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke suggesting...
As we approach the Canada Day launch of summer, much of the attention on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the challenges facing his government is focused on the fate of the CUSMA trade deal and Alberta’s future. But there is another event on the horizon that could both deliver disproportionate impact on these ongoing policy and political files and provide...
Donald Trump has made the Gordie Howe International Bridge into a big, beautiful monument to the futility of trying to jointly advance the economic interests of his country and ours. There are so many reasons for Canadians to be furious about Trump blocking the bridge’s opening: the pain to industries that need a faster crossing at the Windsor-Detroit border, the...
For more than a decade, a gray limestone-clad house overlooking the Ottawa River has served as a symbol of Canadian indecision and entropy. The prime minister’s official residence at 24 Sussex Drive had been left to the gnawing of rats because politicians didn’t have the guts to do something about it. Anything.
On Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a national fundraising campaign for the renovation of the prime minister's official residence, 24 Sussex Drive. But is this project long overdue or just another opportunity for political posturing? Political insiders Greg MacEachern, Fred DeLorey and Anne McGrath speak to Power & Politics. The Political Pulse Panel also weighs in on the prime...
The fact the Prime Minister personally favours re-opening the Canadian embassy in Tehran was made crystal clear at a press conference last week
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto several weeks ago and denounced antisemitism and stated that, “Unity is not uniformity … our differences are strengths to be nurtured, not risks to be managed.” All Canadians of at least the age of seven have heard similar remarks by public figures, but they do not address the requirement...
With Quebec’s fête nationale of Saint-Jean-Baptiste having launched the province’s pre-election political summer on June 24th, the phoney-war phase of mudslinging and burger flipping ahead of an October 5th election is now underway.
To govern is to choose, the old adage runs. The old adage is wrong. More often, to govern is to straddle. Politicians are disinclined to choose by nature, of course: left unsupervised, they will nearly always prefer guns and butter to guns or butter. But many of the most important issues do not lend themselves to binary, either-or choices. The...
Every good political campaign needs a slogan. Mark Carney may have handed one to the team that will be fighting for Alberta to resist the separatist option this October: “Canada: don’t mess it up.” In a wide-ranging news conference on Thursday, Carney was focused on looking back over his achievements of the past year, but the questions from journalists, naturally...
Canada’s worth fighting for. Alberta does better together with the rest of Canada. And the Oct. 19 referendum in the province is a real choice that could bring on years of uncertainty for Alberta’s economy. None of those points, raised by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a press conference on Thursday, are groundbreaking. But together, the three parts are the...
What’s worse: That Donald Trump wants to break off trade with Canada, or that the U.S. president doesn’t want us to trade with anybody else? Never before as a country have we been so outraged into collective retaliation as we have by America’s rejection of us, its closest trading partner. But whatever we may think of America’s political trajectory, the...
Thanks to the Canada Strong Pass, Canadians can enjoy a more affordable summer. Valid from June 19 to Sept. 7, it provides free admission to all national historic sites and parks operated by Parks Canada, free or reduced admission at national and provincial museums and galleries and free and discounted travel with Via Rail.
Nobody could accuse Mark Carney of lacking intellectual suppleness. A week after enthusiastically endorsing the federal government’s involvement in moves to buy and convert up to 2,500 Vancouver condos that developers can’t unload, on Thursday the prime minister downplayed Ottawa’s role in the scheme. Article content At a press conference to mark the end of the parliamentary session, Carney said...
I imagine Mark Carney was something of an autocrat even in the cradle, issuing directives and insulting subordinates from the earliest age. “Yeah, I’m not feeling this WubbaNub. Got any others?” “This is not a helpful suggestion. Go back and rework it to a different nap time.”
Six years ago, Mark Carney set out to discover his own grand unified theory of everything — or, at least, of why houses became so expensive. Then the governor of the Bank of England, Carney thought there could be a way to align government and bank policy which, borrowing a phrase from Sir Isaac Newton, would “protect the economy from...
They are the behemoths that dot the European landscape. Giant fortresses that have stood for centuries. They were built as defensive bastions to withstand invasions and sieges. Over time, the very isolation, impregnability and fearsome scale of these fortresses suggested an obvious – if less noble – secondary use. And names like Peniche Fortress, north of Lisbon, Marseille’s Château d’If...
Inflation has surged to its highest level in years, Statistics Canada announced Monday, and we can rightly blame U.S. President Donald Trump and his war in Iran for the oil-fueled increase.
It is patently unfair that the Carney government has announced plans to bail out condo developers in British Columbia, without even a mention of the struggling venture capitalists in Ontario, the hedge fund managers in Quebec, and the corporate CEOs in Alberta.
Parliament has risen for the summer, and it is yet again a key time for political parties to tend to all-important local political concerns that ultimately drive the successes or failures of Members of Parliament. For Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals—except for flag waving around the World Cup and big hopes that Canada goes on a run on...
To be a successful leader in politics, you need a few things: a vision for the country, a plan to realize it and an ability to articulate why you are the right person to lead the journey. British prime minister Keir Starmer possesses none of these things. That’s why he’s been forced to resign his post. It’s expected he’ll be...
In economics, the concept of “moral hazard” describes a situation where an individual or institution is more likely to take reckless risks because they do not bear the negative consequences of those risks. It is an idea with which Prime Minister Mark Carney is very familiar, having been a vocal critic of the claim that banks were “too big to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey next week before he jets off to Saudi Arabia -- his first official visits to those countries. NATO members are expected to gather on July 7 and 8 in Ankara to celebrate an alliance-wide increase in defence spending, following years of U.S. pressure for alliance members to hike...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has shuffled his front bench lineup and has named Ontario MP Michael Chong as the party's new finance critic. Chong, a veteran MP who served as the Conservative foreign affairs critic for the last six years, replaces Alberta MP Jasraj Hallan in finance. Hallan moves to the national revenue file. B.C. MP Aaron Gunn is taking...
Alberta’s initial proposal for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast, which it is due to submit to Ottawa’s Major Projects Office this week, will not be backed by any private-sector proponents, two sources say. The province set itself a July 1 deadline to submit the proposal for fast-tracked federal consideration, against opposition from some British Columbia First Nations...
Russian cybercriminals managed to hack into a Quebec municipality's water treatment plant systems and had the ability to wreak havoc on the crucial infrastructure before getting caught, according to Canada's cyber spy agency. In its latest annual report released Monday, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said that it detected over 3,200 cyber incidents affecting either federal government organizations or one...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Nunavik today to meet with Inuit leaders along with half a dozen of his cabinet ministers, including those who handle the energy, public safety and defence files. The Inuit-to-Crown partnership committee brings together federal cabinet ministers and Inuit three times a year, with the prime minister attending one of those meetings. This meeting...
A defence technology company that has helped protect Canada's north revealed Tuesday that it recently added another asset to its arsenal: $139 million. Dominion Dynamics claims the cash it raised forms the largest Series A funding round for a Canadian defence company ever and will help the burgeoning Ottawa-based firm expand rapidly. "It feels good ... but funding doesn't mean...
The Head of the International Energy Agency said the current geopolitical moment presents a “once in a lifetime opportunity” for Canada to be a “real energy export superpower,” but it needs to move quickly. In a fireside conversation with finance minister François-Philippe Champagne on Monday, Fatih Birol said trust and predictability should be at the centre of Canada’s export strategy...
President Donald Trump keeps saying he wants to walk away from the $1 trillion-plus North American trade deal he negotiated in his first term. Nobody believes he will.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is shuffling his front bench in a reset that includes putting one of his party’s longest-serving MPs into the key position of finance critic. Michael Chong, who has been the MP for the Ontario riding of Wellington-Halton Hills North since 2004, will move to finance after serving as the party’s foreign-affairs critic for nearly six years...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to announce the next steps in her push for a new oil pipeline to Canada’s West coast on Thursday. As part of the energy memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Alberta and the federal government late last year, the province had until July 1 to submit its proposal for a new pipeline to the...
Party sources say MPs elected in 2025 are expected to be featured in the shakeup. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to announce a shuffling of his critic roles and front bench, according to Conservative sources, as he looks to adapt his messaging to Prime Minister Mark Carney's majority government. The shuffle comes almost three months after Opposition MPs with...
The foundation in charge of the fundraiser to restore 24 Sussex says it has received more than $100,000 in donations since Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to renovate the heritage residence. Rideau Hall Foundation CEO Teresa Marques says in an emailed statement the group is "humbled and moved" by an influx of donations by individual Canadians over the weekend...
Paradoxically, history suggests things go best politically for Premier Doug Ford when things are at their most uncertain for Ontario. Ford’s performance during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic — when Ontario recorded fewer deaths per capita than neighbouring Quebec, Manitoba, New York and Michigan — ensured his Progressive Conservatives were easily re-elected in 2022.
Heritage Minister Marc Miller said Monday the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg made "an error" in its presentation of an exhibit about displaced Palestinians.
Israel’s defence attaché is departing for home and will not be replaced at the country’s embassy in Canada – a sign, experts say, of an erosion of bilateral relations with Ottawa as ties remain strained over Gaza. Colonel Ilan Or is returning to Israel at the end of July, the embassy said. The responsibilities will be taken over by a...
Canada's former chief trade negotiator says he doesn't expect Ottawa to reach a tariff deal with Washington before the U.S. midterm elections. Steve Verheul says while there could be a window ahead of the midterms this fall when the U.S. administration is looking for a win, he thinks it's more likely that negotiations stretch into next year. He says he...
Tom Siddon, who served as a cabinet minister under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during the Oka crisis and later helped to establish Nunavut, has died. He was 84.
A group pushing for a separation referendum in Alberta has won a partial victory in court. An Alberta Court of Appeal judge ruled on Monday that the signatures on their referendum petition can be counted and verified. Justice Alice Woolley, in a written decision, said not verifying the signatures now could create more problems later on should things change with...
After a hiatus, the popular greener homes program is returning to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and British Columbia. Environment, Climate Change and Nature Minister Julie Dabrusin and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson announced on Monday morning the federal program’s relaunch in the four provinces.
Hunter Biden says the ball is in Canada’s court when it comes to the state of the country’s relationship with the United States going forward. Former U.S. president Joe Biden’s son is back in the spotlight, but this time, for his sometimes-brutal honesty and no-holds-barred social media presence, including social media posts about Canada.
Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency conducted cyberattacks to disrupt the activities of online foreign criminals who were brokering the purchase and sale of precursor chemicals used to make the opioid fentanyl, according to its latest annual report.
The federal government is moving ahead with its July 6 deadline for public servants to return to the office at least four days a week, even as some departments have announced longer timelines because of a lack of available space. The federal government said in early February that as of July 6, all non-executive employees will be required to work...
The head of the production company behind the hit hockey-romance series Heated Rivalry says he is holding off sending Prime Minister Mark Carney his own Team Canada-style fleece jacket, worn by one of the show’s lead characters, until the future of Ottawa’s online streaming law is clear and enacted “for real.”
Choosing the winning bid for Canada’s next generation submarine fleet is coming down to the wire. Analysts say the race between the two contenders, German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and South Korea’s Hanwha, is too close to call. Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously said that a decision would be made before the end of June, but sources tell...
It's going to be a blockbuster kind of week for the Canadian economy. The deadline to renew CUSMA will (almost assuredly) swoosh by on Wednesday, accompanied by a chorus of commentary and recriminations. Before we get there, we will get the latest GDP numbers for April on Tuesday. The economy has been struggling to find its footing. We experienced back-to-back...
On July 1, Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to mark Canada Day with a speech in Edmonton invoking national unity as Alberta weighs its place in Canada. It’s not only Canada’s 159th birthday as a nation, overshadowed though it may be by the twin threats of emboldened separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec.
Cabinet ministers who once appeared relaxed and complacent under Justin Trudeau are now 'on their toes' under Prime Minister Mark Carney, say some Liberal MPs. Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be running the first cabinet government in about 40 to 50 years, but it’s unclear if it will continue in the medium and long term, especially if and when...
The Conservative party of Canada may have been the first political party in this country to use AI-generated footage for an ad, but it won’t be the last according to experts. The party released a video on social media June 5 depicting people lining up at a food bank, losing their jobs and losing their homes with the punchline that...
Toronto's annual Pride Parade on Sunday drew throngs of rainbow-clad partygoers, including the prime minister. Mark Carney joined the parade briefly with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, shaking hands and taking selfies with the roaring crowds lining Yonge Street. As he marched, Carney goaded revellers wielding water guns to drench him. The prime minister stumbled back as he was sprayed with...
Indigenous community members have encouraged federal officials to reflect on how the Order of Canada can overcome its "deep colonial symbolism and associations," says an internal government presentation on efforts to modernize the Canadian honours system. The April presentation, prepared for the Order of Canada Advisory Council, says recent feedback indicates that accepting the honour "could bring feelings of discomfort...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will rule on the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kara Swisher is everywhere.
Israel’s defence attaché is departing for home and will not be replaced at the country’s embassy in Canada – a sign, experts say, of an erosion of bilateral relations with Ottawa as ties remain strained over Gaza. Colonel Ilan Or is returning to Israel at the end of July, the embassy said. The responsibilities will be taken over by a...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada has no current plans to open embassies in Iran or Venezuela. Anand says Canada relies on Italy to connect with Canadians in Iran but admits using an intermediary isn't the most efficient way of dealing with consular issues. Her comments come after a group called the Iranian Justice Collective said it had heard...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the situation in Venezuela following two catastrophic earthquakes is "horrific" and Canada will look to expand its humanitarian support for the region. The rare double earthquakes struck northern Venezuela 39 seconds apart on Wednesday, and officials reported Friday the death toll had risen to 920, with more than 3,360 people injured.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is meeting with her Turkish counterpart in Ottawa today, ahead of the NATO summit next month in Turkey's capital Ankara. Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan is visiting Toronto and Ottawa after pitching a strategic partnership with Canada. Turkey is Canada's military ally by virtue of its NATO membership and Fidan has echoed the Canadian...
As an Iranian diaspora group warns Canada could be looking to re-establish relations with Tehran, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is "at a disadvantage" in countries like Iran where it lacks a diplomatic presence. Commenting today on the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela, the prime minister said that not having diplomatic relations with Venezuela's government makes it hard to respond...
China’s BYD has emerged as one of the most consequential companies in the global automotive transition. Once known primarily as a battery producer, it is now the world’s largest seller of battery-electric vehicles and a major producer of plug-in hybrids, batteries, and energy-storage systems. BYD’s combination of low-cost vehicles, technological innovation, and control over much of its supply chain has...
For Canada and its allies and partners, the main response to Russian claims of Arctic dominance is to see through their own icebreaker and Arctic economic development plans.
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A project to ensure Order of Canada recipients better reflect Canada’s diversity appears to have hit a cultural barrier that could limit Indigenous participation.
Canada’s ambition to become an energy superpower has revived calls for a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific coast. The provincial government strongly supports the idea, agreeing to submit a proposal to the federal Major Projects Office by July 1. Alberta argues that inadequate pipeline capacity is the principal obstacle to expanding oil sands production and increasing Canada’s...
The Liberal government in Ottawa is in the middle of a review of the Access to Information Act, required by law every five years. It’s being run by officials at Treasury Board Secretariat, a powerful central agency. So much is happening in Ottawa these days that the exercise is flying below the radar, like a ground-hugging drone.
In today’s episode of The Line Podcast, recorded on June 26th, 2026, Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson begin with a rare moment of joy. After decades of delay and political paralysis, there is finally a plan to deal with 24 Sussex Drive. Your hosts don’t love every aspect of it, but they’re so relieved that someone has finally decided to...
Crumbling. Rat infested. Decrepit. Unsafe for human habitation. Perhaps not the words you would want to describe the official residence of Canada's leader-- but 24 Sussex Drive has been called it all. In fact, no Prime Minister has lived in the more than a century old mansion for a decade, after Justin Trudeau moved into Rideau Cottage on the grounds...
David Herle, Scott Reid, Jordan Leichnitz, and Kory Teneycke provide insights on the latest in Canadian politics.
Nuclear power has gone from cursed to charmed in one of the great technological and energy comeback stories of the 21st century. Canada, particularly Ontario, is a player in two of the world’s leading ‘big nuclear’ technologies and is an early mover in small modular reactors, too. Saskatchewan has more uranium than anyone. Here’s an industry where the words Canadian...
